“The Record Player is Broken”

nov 2012
SuperCollider Code (executed in real-time.)

I just finished a submission for the SCTweet-a-thon, this time being held at WOCMAT. (Please note that because of WordPress awesomeness (sarcasm… drip drip) the code below runs out of the visible area of the post. You can see if all clearly if you copy and past it somewhere else.)

‘c’ is the sound source (a smattering of impulses) whose density is set by b.

‘d’ takes c as the input of a comb filter whose delay time and feedback amount are set by ‘b’. along with c is the beginning of a feedback loop (LocalIn.) the amplitude of the localin is set by b/2. This is nested inside a resonant low-pass filter whose range is a expanded to 0-12000 and whose resonant pole (q or rq in this case) is set to b/8 (at range of 0.0-0.5).

this is then sent back through the loop (LocalOut) and ‘d’ is duplicated (made stereo) and sent to the dac.

Below is all the code leading up to one I submitted so you can see the evolution of the tweet.